Human Potential – the solo project of award-winning filmmaker, Andrew Becker, returns in 2026 with his seventh album, Eel Sparkles.
Set for release via his own What Delicate Recordings label on March 6, exclusive to Sun 13, be the first to listen to the third single from Eel Sparkles, Sun-E Corporation Teenage Anthem, below.
Also the former drummer for both Dischord Records’ band, Medications, and Brooklyn provocateurs, Screens, speaking on Sun-E Corporation Teenage Anthem, Becker says:
“I like to think about this song in perhaps the most pretentious of ways… by using a John Cage quote. Apologies in advance: ‘I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.”’
An off-kilter dose of synth-based psych-pop, Sun-E Corporation Teenage Anthem follows the fever dream-like circumstances that inspired much of Eel Sparkles (Did it all happen, or didn’t it? You be the judge).
Following 2024’s Wedding Song, Eel Sparkles took shape in the spring of 2025, as Becker crammed a Tascam 488 and a Mark Shippy signature balalaika into his vintage Givenchy bindle and set sail for Inner Mongolia. There, he hoped to track down and solicit the tutelage of legendary baritone, Ariunbataar Ganbaatar, and thus, transmogrify the foundational gain of his sonic effluvium.
Days into the journey, the vessel he was aboard was hijacked by a revolutionary group led by the wayward son of Larry Drake. For days the crew and passengers were forced to watch 70mm prints of “Dr. Giggles” while consuming only fermented horse milk and Teddy Grahams dipped in ham salad. Eventually, after deciding another medium of entertainment was needed, Drake Jr. conscripted Becker into performing, not only live improvised “Giggles” scores, but rigorous performances during daily meals.
After the hostages were liberated by surviving members of the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior incident, Becker found himself back in his Los Angeles kutcha, armed with an array of new ideas that he would engineer into Eel Sparkles.
Eel Sparkles is out March 6 via What Delicate Records. Pre-order from Bandcamp.
Human Potential - Eel Sparkles